<p>Following the call for pre-proposals on ‘Advancing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities in Africa’, applications are now open for scientists and non-academic experts to help in reviewing full proposals.</p>
26.09.2017
<p>Professor Mazlan Othman has been appointed as the new Director of the ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP).</p>
19.09.2017
<p>The International Council for Science Regional Office for Africa (ICSU-ROA) and the whole geohazard team would like to express its deep sorrow to the people affected by the recent deadly landslides in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).</p>
13.09.2017
<p>As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme, 31 representatives of the successful pre-proposals attended a 5-day training workshop on trans-disciplinary (TD) research, which took place on 28 August – 1 September 2017 at the Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda.</p>
04.09.2017
<p>The TWAS Young Affiliates Network held its first conference on 22-24 August 2017. The event gathered around 80 young emerging scientists from more than 30 countries.</p>
30.08.2017
<p>Cuban experts and Salvadoran researchers meet on the first Polymeric Materials and its Applications Workshop in El Salvador. The activity took place at ICSU ROLAC facilities from 24-28 June 2017.</p>
30.08.2017
<p>The Steering Committee of the Africa Chapter of International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA-Africa) held a 2-day strategic retreat in Kampala, Uganda, 22-23 August 2017.</p>
30.08.2017
<p><a href="http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/">The Water Institute</a> at the University of North Carolina has announced that the second Nexus Conference on the theme of Water, Food, Energy and Climate will take place 16-18 April 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.</p>
01.08.2017
<p>This year’s High Level Political Forum at the United Nations was the first-ever in-depth review of selected Sustainable Development Goals: poverty, food and agriculture, health, gender, oceans, resilient infrastructure, and means of implementation.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
17.07.2017
<p>Following a call for review, the memberships of both the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the <a href="http://www.worldsocialscience.org">International Social Science Council</a> (ISSC) provided instructive and considered feedback on the draft high-level strategy proposals for a new merged organization representing all the sciences. Feedback was received from 27 members representing 16 countries in response to the publication of the draft strategy in March.</p>
13.07.2017
